Myanmar Trip Report – Photo Memories
Dear Friends, After my last blog post from Myanmar, we found it very difficult to send photos via the internet. Thus the reason for this […]
Read MoreDear Friends, After my last blog post from Myanmar, we found it very difficult to send photos via the internet. Thus the reason for this […]
Read MoreThe children and director of Love Children’s Home inside their bamboo house. The water of Inle Lake is presently just inches below the floor upon […]
Read MoreMungiki. The very mention of that word evokes dread in the hearts of Nairobi's slum dwellers. The Mungiki are Kenya's mafia, a well-organized group of criminal gangs who intimidate, "tax" and extort people for "protection." To refuse their services is to invite trouble—and even death.
Read MoreThe afternoon was hot, and I welcomed a seat in the shade under a tree. I was in Myebon, a riverside town in southwest Myanmar, bringing relief to victims of Cyclone Giri with one of Heaven's Family's Burmese ministry partners, M.B. Thang. We had just helped a widow and her four children with funds that would enable them to rebuild their flattened home, and the rare sighting of a white guy in this remote area attracted about thirty curious neighbors. M.B. and I took advantage of our captivated audience to share the gospel—and they were very hungry to hear about the Lord. I also told them about Jesus' followers from far away who had sent me to help them.
Read MoreAmerican children might be disappointed to receive clothing as Christmas gifts, but not orphans in Myanmar—who often only have one set of clothes. Every year around this time we ask all of our child sponsors to consider sending an extra $5 for each child they sponsor so that their sponsored children can receive new clothes for Christmas. Our goal this year is to provide "Christmas clothes" for 1,500 orphans and unwanted children on Christmas morning, which they will all excitedly wear to church that day—and most every other day for the next year.
Read More"Leprosy." Eternal silence seemed to follow that single, dreaded word as it fell from the doctor's lips. Su Gui Zhong's heart began to race in panic as the diagnosis of an infected patch of skin registered. I'm a leper! Only 24 years old, she knew that her world was about to end. Before that awful moment, Su Gui had every reason to be optimistic about her future. She lived a simple but fulfilling life in rural China, happily married with three precious daughters. She and her husband had recently finished building a new house that had become their little home. Her community was tight-knit and supportive.
Read MoreNorth Korea’s “eternal” leader, Kim Il-sung, is portrayed as a loving man, but thousands in his prison camps suffer unthinkable injustices Dear Friends, In […]
Read MoreDear Friends, This month I want to share with you some good updates and photos that we received from a few of our orphanages. Orphans […]
Read MoreThousands of Pakistanis, including this woman and her small child (in hammock) were forced to flee their homes due to flooding from unusually heavy […]
Read MorePolio-stricken Francis Budohi, ready to go to church on a bicycle taxi Dear Friends, Francis Budohi contracted polio as a young boy and has […]
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